Common Grounds

Former Israeli Diplomat Endorses Two-State Solution at Hillel

April 12, 2018 12:13
Source: The Chicago Maroon

https://www.chicagomaroon.com/article/2018/4/12/former-israeli-diplomat-endorses-two-state-solutio/

By Jake Biderman

Published April 11, 2018

Former Israeli diplomat Nadav Tamir discussed the future of the Middle East and answered questions at UChicago Hillel on Monday.
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Palestine's liberation reverend: 'The world will take notice of our cause'

May 02, 2018 10:49
Source: Middle East Eye

http://www.middleeasteye.net/in-depth/features/palestines-reverend-naim-ateek-world-will-take-notice-our-cause-215804184

By Hadani Ditmars

Published May 1 2018

VANCOUVER - Eighty-one-year-old Palestinian Reverend Naim Ateek recalls when his family was displaced from their village of Beisan, now a northern Israeli town after it was destroyed in 1948, when he was just 11 years old. The memory of the Nakba (the catastrophe) is never far from his consciousness.
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Forget the Kotel, Amb. Friedman. Go see Jerusalem's Palestinian ghetto

May 02, 2018 11:06
Source: + 972 Magazine

https://972mag.com/forget-the-kotel-amb-friedman-go-see-jerusalems-palestinian-ghetto/135012/

By Yudith Oppenheimer

Published May 2 2018

Instead of going to the Kotel, go to the Palestinian neighborhoods of East Jerusalem and to the ghettos encircled by the separation wall. You will see a very different Jerusalem than the one you idealize.
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Palestinian Christians and Muslims call on faith communities to help end the occupation

May 03, 2018 10:51
Source: Mondoweiss

http://mondoweiss.net/2018/04/palestinian-christians-communities/

Open letter

Published April 26, 2018

Then the Lord saw it, and it displeased Him that there was no justice. (Isaiah 59:15b)

As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it. (Luke 19:41)
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Opinion // A.B. Yehoshua, Don't Give Up on the Two-state Solution in Our Name

May 07, 2018 12:55
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-a-b-yehoshua-don-t-give-up-on-the-two-state-solution-in-our-name-1.6054603

By Stav Shaffir
Published May 04, 2018

Yehoshua’s plan for escaping the despair – establishing a binational federation – is the mirror image of the right thing to do
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The Land And Its Promise for Palestinians and Israelis

May 07, 2018 13:05
Source: Patheos

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/teachingnonviolentatonement/2018/04/the-land-and-its-promise-for-palestinians-and-israelis/

BY Lindsey Paris-Lopez

Published April 15, 2018

How much violence could be deterred, how much suffering averted, how much pain and grief and anguish and humiliation could be replaced by love, compassion, connection and affirmation, if only we understood the all-encompassing embrace of God’s complete and unconditional love!
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Does the shadow of anti-Judaism endure in the Catholic subconscious?

May 08, 2018 12:31
Source: The Tablet

http://www.thetablet.co.uk/blogs/1/1161/does-the-shadow-of-anti-judaism-endure-in-the-catholic-subconscious-

Blog

Published May 07 2018

The anti-Semitism within Labour that Jews and others have so bitterly complained about in recent weeks, and which cost Labour an otherwise certain win in Barnet in the recent council elections, is mostly the result of a deliberate blurring of the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism.
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Palestinian refugees are demanding to be heard. Will we listen?

May 10, 2018 12:52
Source: +972 Magazine

https://972mag.com/palestinian-refugees-are-reclaiming-their-place-at-the-table/135158/

By Edo Konrad
Published May 6, 2018

70 years later, Palestinian refugees are no longer waiting for peace talks to determine their fate. In Gaza, they are actively reclaiming their place at the table.
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How Britain enabled the ethnic cleansing of Palestine

May 10, 2018 13:07
Source: The Electronic Intifada

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-cronin/how-britain-enabled-ethnic-cleansing-palestine

By David Cronin

Published May 9, 2018

Supporters of Israel among Britain’s ruling elite tend to recite mantras about the two nations sharing the same values.
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De-colonising the mind - a former Zionist fighter's journey

May 10, 2018 14:05
Source: Al Jazeera

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/de-colonising-mind-zionist-fighter-journey-180508183223954.html

By William Parry

Published May 8, 2018

Tikva Honig-Parnass joined the Palmach militia as it ethnically cleansed Palestinians and now works to expose the crime.
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